interrogative
Example Sentences
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Over the holiday season, there were online pile-ons galore, with straight women repeatedly taking gay critics of the show to task over their negative or merely interrogative opinions of the series.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2026
At charity events, auctioneers insert interrogative phrases, such as “would you give?,” an appeal to the bidders’ generosity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
Variety wrote: The film “feels like a miracle and an interrogative act of defiance.”
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2022
The interrogative form does all the work of asking aloud — with none of the actual asking — why mom still thinks you can speak for a four-years-ago ex.
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2022
She led me, not to the stiff chair set up, interrogative style, in front of her desk, but to the plush crimson cushion of her window seat.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing interrogative
Language and Grammar - Introductory
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Language and Grammar - Middle School
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